====== Contributors ======
Contributors submit [[avrbook:projects]].

===== Compensation: =====
Contributors get some stuff:

//This is the list I sent to Joe Grand on 5/1/09.// --- //[[jeff@mightyohm.com|Jeff Keyzer]] 2009/05/01 11:30//

  * $100 honorarium
  * 5 free books
  * 38% discount on this book (unlimited copies)
  * bio page at the //front// of the book with links to webpage, a place to buy kits, etc.

===== Call for projects (Mitch's original email): =====

CTP, Elliot, Far, Jimmie, Joe, Jonathan, Kip, Zach,

I'm writing you all 'cause we talked about your being part of the AVR book for No Starch Press.  Jeff Keyzer and I are co-authors of the book, which we are just at the beginning stages of putting together.  I would love it if each of you were contributors of projects for the book.

The book will have several chapters, each with one project, with each project presenting a fundamental about microcontrollers, and one or two advanced concepts about microcontrollers.  Each project will build on concepts presented in earlier chapters, plus present new ones.  The book is for two audiences at once:  1) total beginners, including people who've never built anything ever before;  2) people who've played with microcontrollers, but want to learn more.

I think it would be way cool if each of you contributed a project which I'd write a chapter around.  The projects all need to be open source, made with readily available parts, include an AVR microcontroller, and not need any proprietary elements (e.g., something for an iPod might be really cool, but is not appropriate for this book).  The project you contribute can be way simple, or pretty complex, or anything in between.  If you are still interested, please send me and Jeff one of your project ideas (or two or more) that you think might be cool for the book.  What we choose depends on what everyone submits, since we want the projects to build on one another.

The book will start out with a Hello World of making an LED blink (including a very brief, easy, and fun intro to electronics, and also hardware timers).  Next I'm thinking of presenting a MiniPOV3, which is just a more complex Hello World, and shows a good use for hardware timers.  Maybe next will be the Brain Machine, since it is a simple hack from the MiniPOV3, and shows more complex use of hardware timers.  Next could be the Trippy RGB Light and Trippy RGB Waves kit, since the Trippy RGB Light is also hacked from the MiniPOV3, and the Trippy RGB Waves is a hack of the Trippy RGB Light, but with an added input and IR output (and an advanced concept of simple use of interrupts, and also PWM).  Following chapters will have projects that build on these concepts.  Depending on the projects you all suggest, I could change this.  I also want to have stuff on Arduino in the book.

It will be fun for people to build projects as they go along with the book's chapters.  But I want the book to work well as a learning tool even if people choose only to read, and not also build (though I'm wanting people to be intrigued enough to build as well).

For contributing a project, you will get a Contributor Page at the back of the book, which can include a bio and info about your projects (that you will write), a link to your website where people can buy your kits (Bill Pollock, the head of No Starch Press says it would be great to offer readers a Coupon Code so they can get a discount on one or more of your kits).  You will also get an honorarium of $100, 5 free books, and a 38% discount on as many books as you'd like to buy, which you can sell or give away any way you like.

I'll be doing all of the writing (except for your Contributor Pages), so the book has one voice.  Jeff will be doing all the work.  By contributing a project, you will need to commit to providing really good documentation on how your project works, and have really well documented firmware.  We don't have a schedule for the book, yet, but I really want to have it mostly done by March of next year (ready for final editing).  So, we will need to choose which projects to include in the book in the coming month.

Jeff will be contacting all of you to see if you're interested, and if so, he'll be collecting project ideas from you.

Sound cool?

Cheers,
Mitch.